| Case(s) | |
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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Author: | n.a. |
| Publisher: | Batesville Guard |
| Place of publication: | Batesville, AR |
| Date of publication: | 4/10/1908 |
| Transcript: | Walter Clayton, a negro, confessed to assaulting a young married woman near Loxley, Ala., and just before the officers reached the Baldwin county jail with the prisoner a mob overpowered them, secured the negro and took him into the woods and lynched him. Clayton was serving a long term at a convict camp, and was a trusty. He went to the home of his victim, a short distance from the camp, and finding her alone, made the assault. The woman was choked into insensibility and otherwise brutally treated. John Burr, a negro 30 years of age, was lynched near Wesson, Miss., for the murder of a 12-year-old white boy. The murder was unprovoked. |
| Citation: | “Negro Lynched.” Batesville Guard (Batesville, AR), April 10, 1908. |